Slow Club

I first came across Sheffield’s Slow Club, a.k.a. Becky Taylor and Charles Watson, nearly three years ago. It was a fateful day, as I was dragged across Bestival wearing a white shell suit and in a “festival-day-three” haze by a friend to the Radio 1 New Music tent to check out this ‘Tilly And The Wall-like duo, who play chairs, bottles of water and extremely good, folky music.’ Unfortunately, I spoiled the atmosphere when Becky asked the crowd to say something nice to the person standing next to them, by shouting out a particularly disgusting statement that my friend and I had seen emblazoned across a girl’s T-shirt earlier that day. (More …)